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Yes, this is one of Lightroom's greatest strengths ... there are many ways to select just a portion of your photos.

The primary method I would recommend is to assign keywords to your photos, and then when you want to see only the photos that have the keyword "Family" for example, you would point at the keyword "Family" in the Keyword List panel on the right and then click on the arrow to the right of the word Family.

There are many other ways to select and filter certain photos in Lightroom.